USPTO Patents Application 08873597

PTO/SB/64 (09-06)
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PETITION FOR REVIVAL OF AN APPLICATION FOR PATENT
ABANDONED UNINTENTIONALLY UNDER 37 CFR 1.137(b)

Docket Number (Optional)
067456.5005US

First named inventor: KAYYEM, J. Faiz Art Unit: 1634

Application No.: 08/873,597 Examiner: FORMAN, Betty J.

Filed: June 12, 1997 Conf. No.: ■ 2066

Title: AC/DC VOLTAGE APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS

Attention: Office of Petitions
Mail Stop Petitions

Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
FAX (571)273-8300

NOTE: If information or assistance is needed in completing this form, please contact Petitions
Information at (571 ) 272-3282.

The above-identified application became abandoned for failure to file a timely and proper reply to a notice or action by the
United States Patent and Trademark Office. The date of abandonment is the day after the expiration date of the period set for
reply in the office notice or action plus any extensions of time actually obtained.

APPLICANT HEREBY PETITIONS FOR REVIVAL OF THIS APPLICATION

NOTE: A grantable petition requires the following items:

(1) Petition fee;

(2) Reply and/or issue fee;

(3) Terminal disclaimer with disclaimer fee - required for all utility and plant applications
filed before June 8, 1995; and for all design applications; and

(4) Statement that the entire delay was unintentional.

1 . Petition fee

[X] Small entity fee $ 750.00 (37 CFR 1.1 7(m)). Applicant claims small entity status. See 37 CFR 1.27.
□ Other than small entity - fee $ (37 CFR 1 . 1 7(m))

2. Reply and/or fee

A. The reply and/or fee to the above-noted Office action in

the form of response to notice TO file corrected APPLICATION PAPERS (identify type of
reply):

PI has been filed previously on .

E>^ is enclosed herewith.

B. The issue fee and publication fee (if applicable) of $ .

I I has been filed previously on .

|~l is enclosed herewith.

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This collection of information is required by 37 CFR 1.137(b). The information is required to obtain or retain a benefit by the public which is to file (and by the
USPTO to process) an application. Confidentiality is governed by 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37 CFR 1.11 and 1.14. This collection Is estimated to take 1 .0 hour to
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comments on the amount of time you require to complete this form and/or suggestions for reducing this burden, should be sent to the Chief Information Officer,
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Department of Commerce, P.O. Box 1450. Alexandria. VA 22313-1450. DO NOT SEND FEES OR COMPLETED
FORMS TO THIS ADDRESS. SEND TO: Mail Stop Petition, Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.

1-SF/761 7391.1

If you need assistance in completing this form, call 1-B0O-PT0-9199 and select option 2

PTO/SB/16 (10-05)
Approved for use through 07V31/2006 OMB 0651-0031
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no person are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB number.

3. Terminal disclaimer with disclaimer fee

IXI Since this utility/plant application was filed on or after June 8, 1995, no terminal disclaimer is required.

| I A terminal disclaimer (and disclaimer fee (37 CFR 1 .20(d)) of $ for a small entity or $

for other than a small entity) disclaiming the required period of time is enclosed herewith (see
PTO/SB/63).

4. STATEMENT: The entire delay in filing the required from the due date for the required reply until the filing of a
grantable petition under 37 CFR 1.137(b) was unintentional. [NOTE: The United States Patent and
Trademark Office may require additional information if there is a question as to whether either the
abandonment or the delay in filing a petition under 37 CFR 1.137(b) was unintentional (MPEP 71 1.03(c),
subsections (lll)(C) and (D)).]

WARNING:

Petitioner/applicant is cautioned to avoid submitting personal information in documents filed in a patent application that may contribute to
identity theft. Personal information such as social security numbers, bank account numbers, or credit card numbers (other than a check or
credit card authorization form PTO-2038 submitted for payment purposes) is never required by the USPTO to support a petition or an
application. If this type of personal information is included in documents submitted to the USPTO, petitioners/applicants should consider
redacting such personal information from the documents before submitting them to the USPTO. Petitioner/applicant is advised that the record
of a patent application is available to the public after publication of the application (unless a non-publication request in compliance with 37 CFR
1.213(a) is made in the application) or issuance of a patent. Furthermore: the record from an abandoned application may also be available to
the public if the application is referenced in a published application or an issued patent (see 37 CFR 1.14), Checks and credit card
authorization forms PTp|2038 submitted for payment purposes are not retained in the application file and therefore are not publicly available.

OCTOBER 18, 2007
Signature Date

DAVID C. FOSTER, PH.D.

Typed or printed name Registration Number, if applicable
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP [415] 442-1000

Address Telephone Number

One Market, Spear Street Tower

San Francisco, CA 94105 67374

Address Customer No.

Enclosures: Q Fee Payment
Kl Reply

I I Terminal Disclaimer Form

| | Additional sheets containing statements establishing unintentional delay

^ Other: Replacement sheets of formal drawings

CERTIFICATE OF MAILING (37 CFR 1.8(a)) OR ELECTRONIC FILING
I hereby certify that this correspondence is being:
| | Deposited with the United States Postal Service on the date shown below with sufficient postage as first class
mail in an envelope addressed: Mai) Stop Petition, Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA
22313-1450.

^ Transmitted electronically in Portable Document Form (PDF) through EFS-Web via Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol to the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Patent£jf£ronic Business Center on:
October 18. 2007

ignature
Brent Yonehara

Typed or printed name of person signing certificate

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